Metallic shipping-package.



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,1911. 1,004,028. Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

LEON SfHOWE, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

METALLIC SHIPPING-PACKAGE'.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept.26, 1911.

Application filed July 1, 1911. Serial No. 636,471.

.To all whom tt may concern.'

Be it known that I, LEON S. HOWE, a

` citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, county, city,

and State,- of New York, have invented yperforated and serves as a pivot bearin certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Shipping-Packages, set forth in the following specification.

This invention `relates to a new package as an article of manufacture.

It is customary to reinforce packed wooden boxes by nailing a strip of 'strap-iron around each of the two ends of the box. When the strapfiron is available merely in bulk in the form of a continuous strip, the:

shipping clerk is required first to pull out an indefinite length of `the strap-iron; he must then measure oil"l from the end of the strip a len tli sullicient to encircle the end of the box .tghe must then cut olf the measured length; he, must then again measure olf the same lengthcf strip for ythe other end of the box; andthe must then lcnt ofi' this second measuredilength.

. An object of the present invent on is practica ly to halve the labor formerly required for accomplishing the above result.

To that end this invention contemplates in its embodiment a novel package of strapiron, in which' two surface-overlying strips of strap-iron are combined, as` two.sand wiched, helical strips, into a compact pancake-1ike2structureso that the outer strip, when marked or indented at regular distances along its length, may serve as a lineal measurer for itself and also for the combined underlying strip 'of strap-iron. In strapping Ya box from a ackave according tothis invention, the shippin clerk offstrap-iron from each of the two com( ined helical strips and simultaneously cuts olf the sa-me measured length from the end of each of the two strips, one to beused on one end of the box andthe other to be used on the other end of the box.`

i AThe invention will be clear from the following specification, which is directed pari ticularly to the illustrative embodiment of Othevinvention shown in the accompanying 1 drawings, which form a part of this application, in which like characters designate i corresponding parts and in which,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing /the new package complete andv in use; Fig.

2 is a fractional elevation 'drawn toa'n en- Vwinding of the sandwiched helices.

simultaneously unwinds the required l ngth l larged scale and artly in section, showing the finished artic e; and Fig. '3 is a diagrammatic view iii elevation showing the A wooden disk shaped hub 1 is centrally for rotatably supporting the complete structure. The two ends 2 and 3 of the strips of strap-iron 4 and 5 are shown biting 65 into the notch 6 of the hub 1. With the lstrips 4 and 5 maintained lalways with their surfaces overlying as indicated in Fig. 3" 1 the hub 1 is forcibly rotated so as to win up and combine thehelix 7 with the helix 8 70y so that the turns of the helix 7 alternate with the turns of the helix 8, the helix 8 having each turn overlying a turn of the helix 7 and so that the two helical strips 4 and 5 are sandwiched and combined to form 'f5 a paii-cakelike structure 9; The strip 4 of the helix 8, having each of its turns overlying a turn of the helix 7 is shown provided with lineal marlers 10 which are spaced uniformly along the len th ofthe strip 4 80 to mai-k oil" units of lengt such as feet or a unit denoting the complete end circumference'lof a box, such as the box 11 to be straiiped.

Upon the completion of the structure 9, a 35 binder should be provided. In the embodiment illustrated, a strap-iron yoke 12 is shown diametrically embracing both fiat sides of the pan-cake-like structure 9 so as to provide means spanning the ed es of the helical strips and at its ends 13 an '14 binding the same in compact array. A tubular yrivet 15 is shown securing the yoke 12 by passing through the perforation 165 of the.

hub 1.

To emplo the article illustrated, the'two strips 4 an 5 together arel gras ed.; by the hand and are pulled out a lengt indicatedl by a mark 10 provided on the buter strip.

The shipping clerk then needs' merely to 100 cut oil' the ends of the two strips in a maiiner shown in Fig. l to obtain, by the one operation, two strips of strap-iron, each of the proper length for binding each of they two ends of the box 11.

' What is claimed and what is desired to be secured by UnitedStates Letters Iatent is A strap-iron package comprisinga set of a combined liirality of surface-overlying, 1 sandwiched, iclical sti'ips of strap-iron, all

of the saine width and forming a compact pameakedike structure and so that La' single: .'n. Witnessl whereof, I have signed lmy 'exposed strip of a set may serve se'ajlirmalv name to this specification, in the presence df 'measurer fol` all' the strips o-s'aid -,`set; a two sbs'crbingwitnesses. central' ivot-beaiing fr'rotatably Support- I LEON S. HO.. 1 5,;ing-Si stm-110mm; and means spanning' the Witnesses: l

'edges 'of .said helical strips for binding the H. M. Sunnis,

same in ,compact array. y LEONARD DAY. 

